100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Wellbeing

✍ Scribed by Jennifer Murray

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 137
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you!The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert in their field and is passionate about sharing best practice with their peers.Each title includes at least ten additional extra-creative Bonus Ideas that won't fail to inspire and engage all learners.Jennifer Murray provides a rich toolbox of supportive ideas to promote and protect wellbeing for both you and your pupils, and to help all to flourish. Activities such as 'care treasure maps' and 'connection clubs' are easy to try and to sustain, and all have been used to make a positive difference in primary schools across the UK. There is a section dedicated to teacher wellbeing as well as a broad range of strategies to use in the classroom with your pupils, covering language, relationships, physical movement, self-awareness, appreciation and awareness of your environment and much more.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
How to use this book
Part 1: Filling your cup first
1 Comfort, stretch, challenge
2 Who’s your radiator?
3 Make time to take time
4 Front and centre stage
5 No can be a full sentence
6 You are what you eat (and drink!)
7 The sunshine file
8 Bring, brag and borrow
9 A cup of kindness
10 Stop, start, continue
Part 2: Leading with language
11 A working word wall for feelings
12 Mirror, mirror, on the wall
13 Fine, thanks. No, thanks.
14 What’s in your backpack?
15 What if?
16 Compliments chain
17 Great wall of gratitude
18 Bubble time
19 Wellbeing detectives
20 What do we mean by wellbeing?
Part 3: Creating connections
21 Ways to wellbeing reviews
22 Send a high five
23 My trusted grownup
24 What does my hero do?
25 What you didn’t know!
26 A letter to my buddy
27 Observe and connect
28 Lunchtime connection clubs
29 Linking letters
30 A woolly web
Part 4: Moving and motivating
31 Wiggle time
32 Word tennis
33 Vote with your feet
34 Mirror me
35 Yes! Let’s!
36 Big feelings, big movements
37 A positive snowstorm
38 Heartbeats and hopes
39 Mood mover
40 Mind/movement monitors
Part 5: Cultivating a culture of care
41 Care treasure map
42 Care commitment
43 Looks like, sounds like, feels
44 Community action week
45 Self-care showcase
46 Need to have, nice to have
47 Not random acts of kindness
48 Care crew
49 Memory box
50 Treasure chest
Part 6: Supporting self-esteem
51 Ask an expert
52 Kindness tree
53 30 reasons why we love
54 Looking back, facing forward
55 I am who I am
56 Register affirmations
57 My jigsaw
58 Identity insights
59 My body, my mind
60 Ten things I know about me
Part 7: Thriving not surviving
61 Bubble breathing
62 Mindful moments
63 Sparking joy
64 Cup of calm
65 Where will your pencil go?
66 Noticing the small things
67 Safety superheroes
68 Body talk
69 My relationships triangle
70 Hope target board
Part 8: Becoming environmental change agents
71 Creativity in nature
72 We’re going on a senses hunt!
73 One small change
74 Finding flow
75 Tree tickles
76 Noticing nature
77 Energy saving superheroes
78 Plastic-free bird feeders
79 School space survey
80 Spot the similarities
Part 9: Valuing process over product
81 My learning journey
82 All about me
83 A recipe for group work
84 The noise-o-meter
85 Walking gallery
86 Plenary prompts
87 Small, medium and large goals
88 Positivity postcards
89 Learning logs
90 Topic recall framework
Part 10: Collaborating for change
91 Wellbeing wheel
92 Moving meetings
93 Team tactics
94 Game changers
95 Policy planning
96 Celebratory learning walk
97 You say, we do
98 Workspace wellbeing guidance
99 Team triads
100 Community wellbeing agreement